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The Mount Pleasant Lions Club… Are YOU ready to serve?. Lions – Over 100 years strong. 1917: Lions started in Chicago as a business club. Melvin Jones thought business clubs should help their communities. Vision Statement for Lions Clubs of Michigan.
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Lions – Over 100 years strong • 1917: Lions started in Chicago as a business club. • Melvin Jones thought business clubs should help their communities.
Vision Statement forLions Clubs of Michigan The vision is to serve the needs of people in our communities, preserve sight and hearing through our existing state projects, new state projects, and partnerships with other organizations in the state of Michigan.
Global Cause • Vision • Diabetes • Hunger • Environment • Childhood Cancer
Lions Charge Lions should become “knights of the blind in the crusade against darkness… , … and hasten the day when there shall be no preventable blindness, no little deaf, blind child untaught; no blind man or woman unaided.”
Leadership training: • Local club officer training • Lions of Michigan Leadership Institute • Michigan Lions Forum • USA/Canada Lions Leadership Forum • Faculty Development Institute
3 Key Messages… • Lions are men and women dedicated to serving those in need, in their own community and around the world. • Our global mission of sight preservation makes us unique among service organizations. • Lions provide many leadership development opportunities for members.